Post-PLIBMTTBHGATY Portland Précis

We recently organized our first event in Portland: PLIBMTTBHGATY. It’s like an
unconference for programming languages, a lightly-structured party for people
to get together and try new languages. It’s a mouthful to pronounce, but a
blast to attend!

PLIBMTTBHGATYers learning Haskell, Ruby, Clojure, and more in Simple’s offices.

I want to share some of what we learned, but first some thanks are in order.

And finally, thank you Laila for teaching me how to PLIBMTTBHGATY, and Gabe for
traveling up from San Francisco to help out!

After a full day of breakfast and lunch, hanging out, and trying new things, we
went around the room and each person shared what they had tried and one thing
they took away. Here’s some of what we all did!

Some people had experience with other functional languages, and found Clojure’s
different style of functional composition interesting. Others had used other
Lisps and were (pleasantly!) surprised by all of the bracket types.

The first was a chat bot through which they learned about concurrency in Go.
They also learned out to use the templating package. The other project was a
Caesar cipher, which let them really get into how strings work.